Characters
- Earth Company personnel
- Signy Mallory, female, captain of the Earth Company Ship ECS5 Norway and the third most senior captain in the Earth Company Fleet
- Conrad Mazian, male, flamboyant, brilliant commander of the Earth Company Fleet
- Segust Ayres, male, Second Secretary of the Earth Company Security Council
- Pell stationers
- Angelo Konstantin, male, Stationmaster of Pell Station, husband of Alicia Lukas Konstantin
- Alicia Lukas Konstantin, married to Angelo Konstantin, sister of Jon Lukas, bedridden and dependent on technology for survival
- Damon Konstantin, son of Angelo and Alicia; head of Legal Affairs
- Elene Quen, female, a former merchanter, married to Damon Konstantin
- Emilio Konstantin, son of Angelo and Alicia
- Jon Lukas, male, head of the Lukas family, rivals of the Konstantins
- Union personnel
- Joshua Talley, male, a prisoner of war who ends up at Pell
- Jessad, male, a secret agent
- Seb Azov, male, Union military commander
- Hisa (natives of Pell, also known as 'Downers')
- Satin, female, mate of Bluetooth, asks for work assignment on Pell Station,
- Bluetooth, male, follows Satin to Pell Station
- Lily, female, attendant to Alicia Konstantin
- Others
- Vassily Kressich, male, refugee from Mariner Station
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